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I was just telling my 10 year old about QNX last night, and how it was an amazing feat to have a whole graphical desktop with apps all fit on a 1.44mb floppy disc. Since he's missing so much of the context of "the ancient times", he didn't exactly share my enthusiasm, but at least he humored me a bit for my trip down memory lane.

I use multiple Firefox profiles because I have a couple of websites for work that seem to wind up with issues loading every few months, and for some reason keeping those sites in their own profile keeps that from happening. I use Firefox Sync to keep things in sync between the two.

Anyway, I've had a different theme for each profile for a couple of years so I can tell them apart at a glance. My main profile is dark gray, and the other profile is green. With this new update, now the themes keep syncing and winding up the same. I tried changing the sync.prefs for all of the activeThemeID keys to false in both profiles, but the themes keep syncing up. Either that, or the themes keep getting reset back to the default theme, which I'm not using for either one.

Has anyone else noticed something like this?

I gave it a try and ran into a situation where the 8 of hearts was the open card at the bottom of a column, and I had a 7 of spades sitting alone in another column, and when I tried to move the 7 to the 8, it refused to let me do it. It's been forever since I've played Klondike, and I've never looked up the official rules, so I'm not sure if there's a rule I'm unaware of or if it's a bug.

In the same game, I just ran into another one where I turned over the six of diamonds from the stock pile, and when I tried to move it onto the 7 of spades, it also refused that move.

Just make sure you watch it all the way to the end. Or at least pay attention to the date in the title.

I remember "cat lipstick" being a big joke/meme 20 years ago on Fark.com. Ceiling Cat was omnipresent and FB- was the father of the multitudes.

Maybe I'm just really out of my depth on this, but it feels like there's not a lot of information about _why_ these particular steps and tools are used. Why are 4 different Linux images needed? Why are there all of these steps to create a one-time use "init.iso"? Is it just so the cloud-init script can run? I see the call to mkisofs is referencing "cidata", but it's the only place in the whole page that "cidata" shows up. Does that mean mkisofs is cloud-init aware? And why use emulation instead of virtualization?

I guess part of why I'm asking is because I've set up virtual machines in UTM on Apple Silicon before, and I never had to go through all of this just to get Linux installed and configured. The post makes me wonder if there's something I'm maybe missing, but it doesn't give any explanation for me to be able to figure out if that's the case. Maybe the post is meant more just as a checklist for the person that wrote it, for their own reference? But the way the post reads doesn't quite sound that way.

Hmm... that's all coming out sounding more critical than I mean to. I just want more info and I am curious about the approach.

> I ask our clients to build a list of their impressions for the first month (or even more) and then revisit that list after a month. A lot of requests magically vanish off that list.

That's a really great and simple idea. Change is hard and it takes time for people to adjust, even if they requested change in the first place. Things like muscle memory and habit can cause a lot of up front discomfort, but basically requesting that they take the time to allow those things to catch up can really shift their perspective of the new normal.

I'm probably an oddball compared to most, but I use a VM as my main work environment. My main reason is because it's super easy to create a backup and test anything like OS or major software updates there first to make sure it doesn't hose anything. Or if I just want to tinker and try new things without risking breaking anything. Also, where I work they get us new hardware every 3 years, and it means I don't have to spend a long time trying to set my environment up on a new computer. I just copy over the VM and jump right in.

I just tried it out, but for some reason it's complaining about missing a pivot_vtab module when I try to open an existing database. (MacOS ARM/Ventura)

That's fantastic! I really appreciate it. I'm going to give it a whirl later this week.

This is pretty cool! I recently started keeping "one text file per month" for my work stuff, and it's been really helpful to have one place to go to see what my next plans are, what I was doing recently, picking up on old trains of thought, and finding those lost examples or exceptions that I made note of previously, but could never remember where I kept them before. I don't have any of the rust ecosystem installed currently, and I know nothing about it, which is a little bit a of a limiting factor for me, but this may give me the push to try it out.

Disclaimer: I'm not a developer, but a data analyst in a very small ecommerce company and fulfillment center. I do quite a bit with light-to-medium automation and "development", as needed, but my skill level at anything development related is probably at the level of a hobbyist.

For the workers that are capable of working from home, my workplace asks us to be in the office only on Thursday morning each week. This gives us a consistent time to do things like having our company-wide meetings or social events like company sponsored meals, fun events, etc.

During COVID, I was perfectly happy working at home. My workplace ensured that I had a desk setup that matched what I had in the office, and my home "office" was removed enough from the chaos of the rest of the house that it worked well.

My decision to start going back to the workplace was in the middle of 2022, when all the COVID related stuff finally started calming down and things like mask regulations started to relax. Some of my decision was due to needing to work in a location where I couldn't distract myself by going and doing things around the house. I had started to do that more and more frequently, mostly due to my ADHD and the fact that the novelty of working from home had worn off.

But another really big part of my decision was because I REALLY did miss seeing my coworkers in person. I'm in this rare unicorn situation where I absolutely love what I do, I love the company I work for, and I love the people I work with. Being there just makes me happy at all levels. This isn't even about an "ideal office setup" in the strict sense you're thinking of. I'm currently in my own office, but I spent the first 3.5 years working in an open office with 3 to 5 others, and that was just as good.

I know a lot of people that have that "Sunday Dread" about having to go to work on Monday, but I honestly get almost giddy Sunday evening knowing that I'll get to go to work the next morning. The really funny thing is that I consider myself to be a pretty extreme introvert. But all in all, I'm well aware that this whole outlook is extremely uncommon, so it's probably not truly considered a "blind spot" on your part, but more that I'm just an outlier.

I've seen the "workspaces" thing in a few different browsers now. I know Vivaldi and Arc have them, and it sounds like it's a separate thing from profiles, but I don't quite grok what the difference is between workspaces and profiles. Can anyone help enlighten me? If you use both workspaces and profiles, what do you do differently between them?

I've used both DB Browser and SQLiteStudio, and I prefer the flow and interface of SQLiteStudio.

It's been a few years since I've used DB Browser, so I forget exactly what I didn't like about it. Maybe I should download it again and try it out one more time and see if I still feel the same way.